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Old 05-28-2014, 08:41 AM
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Dumont RA-110 from ETF

Managed to get this set in the silent auction for $20


The bad news: 19AP4 is toast

The good news: Cabinet has had a decent amateur refinish job and the knobs were sitting inside a coffee cup tucked between the picture tube and chassis.....but that's not all!

After giving the chassis a once over, I'm convinced this was a working set that had a picture tube failure. The recap job here is artistry. Whoever did this job used some funky 2 x 50 uF 500V UK manufactured caps and mounted them neatly in the chassis. Not really any info out there on them, they say FAC/RD37DUK 95-42.

They make everything look so neat, in the midst of what would be long terminal strips of caps mounted on the chassis if I were the one doing the job. Even the disc caps are all new.

Also, there's a funky relay underneath, with one wire labeled COIL. A quick glance shows that the wires go between the power transformer and the twin 5U4s. Could be some type of surge surpression that someone built in, like a soft start circuit?

Anyway, I'd love to shake the hand of the man who did this work.....
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